Ardour v2.8.5 / 2.8.6 has been released. Mac OS X users of Ardour are STRONGLY recommended to immediately upgrade to fix a number of nasty problems that should now be gone. Similarly, anyone using MIDI control surfaces with a "Stop" transport button should upgrade NOW to avoid data loss when recording and using that button.

The changes below are for v2.8.5 which was replaced by v2.8.6 for Linux (source). There is only one one difference to 2.8.5 - VST-enabled builds for Linux are possible. There are no functional changes, and absolutely no changes for Mac OS X, hence the current version for Mac OS X is v2.8.5.

General changes:

MMC (and other remote control protocols) no longer causes Ardour to discard recorded material when stopping transport.

Fix latency compensation when punching in (which was a regression in 2.8.2)